perl-unicode

Encode question

2011-07-07 02:31:57
Dear Encode Developers,

I am migrating a perl application from Solaris 2.10 to Linux Fedora Core 14 (2.6.35.13-92.fc14.x86_64), which is running perl 5.12.3. The app uses SDBM and I'm encountering a problem which looks related to the
Encode module (which is at 2.39).

The error message is:


panic: sv_setpvn called with negative strlen at p.pl line 21.


and this URL led me to Encode:


https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=65541


I ran the simple test at the bottom of the web page:


binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(cp1250)';
print( ( "a" x 1023 ) . "\x{0378}" );


and got the same output:


"\x{0340}" does not map to cp1250 at a.pl line 2.
panic: sv_setpvn called with negative strlen at a.pl line 2.


I looked at CPAN:
http://search.cpan.org/~dankogai/Encode-2.43/


and read the Changes file, but don't see Bug 65541 discussed.


Has this problem been solved, or is it being worked on?
Is there a work-around for SDBM files (other than not using SDBM)?


Thanks very much for your help,
David Saunders
ITS/UVa

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